The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-13
NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Diamonds are found at present in five
counties of California, as follows: Am
ador, Butte, FL Dorado, Nevada and
Trinity.
Three thousand men have been en-
ployed on the Canadian Pacific snow
sheds since. spring. The biggest and
strongest sheds are across the Selkirk and
Rocky mountains.
A curious device recently gotten up in
New York is a clock incased in a repre-
white leather. Tie dial is imbedded in a
cut section Of the ball.
The Boston Advertiser reports that Iowa
farmers are writing to Vermont with re-
gard to purchasing farms there, and it
says that already a movement has set in
from various directions that bids fair to
settle the problem Of the hill towns of
New England by repeopling them.
An odd timepiece is shown in Phila-
delphia window. The front of the clock
is large, round waiter The hours are
marked on a dozen oyster shells. A small
plate, garnished with slices of lemon,
conceals the works, and the hands are a
knife and fork.
The summit of invention has been
reached in the mechanical piano player,
by means of which, as claimed by the
makers, ''anybody, without the least
musical knowled6,, can play any piece
of music This will shut up the con-
servatories and send the pianoforte teach
ers to the poorhouse, but will give boom
to pianoforte factories.
Bridal parties who visit Washington are
disappointed because they cannot ascend
to the top of the Washington monument.
Congress made 40 appropriation for fur
nishing steam power to run the elevator,
and unless a special measure is introduced
at the next session the top of the shaft
VIII be inaccessible during another fiscal
year.
Among other relics of the mound
builders discovered near Devil s lake, Oak.
| by Professor Montgomery of the North
| Dakota university, is what he calls 6
sacrifcial mound, in which, seventeen
inches from the surface, are wells easily
/ found because Of lining Of lime about
| the sides and layers of bark on the bot
| tom. They are deep enough to holt
bodies in sitting posture.
| The P1ussian army list for 1897 con
tains two field marshais, the crown prince
and Count Moltke; iifty-nine cavalry an(
infantry generals; seventy-six ieutenan
generals, and lit major generals. The
cavalry staff consists of fifty-fve colonels
thirty eight lieutenant colonels, and 20t
majors, and liz the infantry staff ther,
| are 1G1 colonels, 172 lieutenant colonel
and 700 majors. The number of officer
shows an increase of sixty-six as compared
with last year.
In 1880 the number of persons receiv
ing interest from registered United State
I bonds was so, S02. Since that time $500,
O00, 0G0 Of those bonds have been pai'
off, and it is figured that the number o
i holders has been reduced to about so,
600. Of these holders 2G,613 held be
tween $50 and $500 each, and 52,64
held less than -, 500 each. The New
England states held II per cent. of tn
whole, the middle states 81 per cent.
the western states 13 per cent, and til
southern states - per cent.
Rapid photography has made grea
progress during the last ten years. Nc
where is it more apparent than in tn
photoSraphing Of projectiles. Photo
graphs Of the projectile from the pneu
matte gun at Fort Lafayette, in NeH
York harbor, showed an apparent cor
densation Of the air just ahead; and now
in some photographs Of projectiles fire
from a WerenGIer gun at Pesth, Hungary
with velocity Of I 800 feet per second
the projectile appears to be enEelopel i
layers quite hypeTbolic in form.
There is one peculiar superstitio
among s+eamboatncn that does not los
any OF its interest by age. Whenever
minister and & white horse happen t
make the trip at tie same time on
steamboat, there is always an accident c
some kind to follow. It may not be a
ways to the Steamboat, but it is certai
to be to the boat or some Of the passer
gers. This superstition is so stron
among the decEhands that they will pos
lively refuse to so on boat which Cal
ries minister and a white horse.